Nicholas Carr writing in the New York Times magazine today ("The Price of Free") writes: "That's one funny thing about the Internet it's an extraordinarily rich communications systems, but as an information and entertainment medium it encourages private consumption. The pictures and sounds served up through our PCs, iPods and smart phones absorb us deeply but in isolation. Even when we're together today, we're often apart, peering into our own screens."
This is a problem, especially with individuated news, if people construe IN to be a form of consumption rather than expression. In other words if your choice of news is all about your private experiencing, we're doomed. If it's about expressing yourself to other people, we have succeeded. It's all a question as to what end you have in mind for individuated news.
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